Monthly Archives: March 2005

US researchers have taken the worst of British music – like Black Lace’s Agadoo – and some of the best – like the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction – to help discover what it is that makes a tune catchy. Brain activity was much the same when volunteers heard a full tune as when they Continue reading →

Keen to persuade us that twenty-something women do politics, Cosmopolitan editor Sam Baker’s used the Observer to say ‘We care about politics and our vote matters’, listing a few top line issues for women. And you have to give her top marks for effort: this month ‘The high heel vote: See grown men Continue reading →

It’s proving to be an historic St. Patrick’s Day for Ireland, whose big wigs are obviously stateside where the real celebrations are: nobody would dye an Irish river green like they do in Chicago. And a good thing for Ireland that is too: the PM gets the ear of the US president at Continue reading →

Back in June, I wrote ‘Britney sinks to new low’ and may have implied that she couldn’t sink any lower. I was wrong. With Do Somethin’, she proves that there truly are no depths to which she will not sink. Check out the video, where she fakes a kind of wild child sexuality Continue reading →

Great to see Peter Saville, himself something of a Manchester icon, putting his foot down over the city’s new logo and refusing to release it to his client until they’ve made up their minds on what it’s to be used for. ‘What is the point of a logo?’ asked Saville. ‘London does not Continue reading →

Talking of Jamie Oliver’s School Dinners, as I was, I’ve gradually become aware that Critter has been leaving his Fs. Given that he’s only one tooth, people are often surprised to learn that he likes crunchy topping at all. But immediately after his fateful trip to the vets for a bit of radical Continue reading →